Improvement in children s carriages



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

SANFORD P. CAMPBELL, FREDERICK G. CO'XSON, AND JOHN M. CROSBY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.

Speoiiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,857, dated October 13, 1874 applcation filed March 21, 1874.

- To all whom it may concern:

jointed braces with a stift' top or frame, and

with the body ofthe carriage, in such a inanner that the top shall be held up by means of the braces wit-hout the use of springs, and caused to descend solidly in an elliptical manner, and escape the handles, and in rear of the body of the carriage, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aside elevation of a carriage with our improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe same.

Like letters of reference in both figures indicate the same parts.

A is the body of the carriage. Bl is the rear and B the front axle. C C are springs at each side ofthe carriage for the support of the body A. The rear ends ofthe springs are of elliptical form, as seen in Fig. l. I[.he lower part is fastened by means ot rivets (t to the rear axle B, and the upper part in like manner to the body A. The front ends ot' the springs are curved downward, and their eyes b connected to the ends of the front axle B. D is the top of the carriage, which is held in its elevated position, as seen in Fig. l, by the straight bars E E, one at each side of the carriage, connected at one end to the body A by means of pivots c c, and at the other end to the top D by pivots 01 c1, and the links F F1 F2 are held together at their inner ends by means of pivots o3, and the middle link F1 is connected with the contiguous bar E by means of pivot c. The lower links F are jointed to the body A by means ot pivots c5, and the links F2 by pivots c6. rIhe distance between the lower pivots c and c5 is greater than between the upper pivots c2 and c6, so as to bring the weight ofthe top D, when in its elevated position, between the two lower pivots and the contiguous ends ot' the links F and F', havin g stops e e, which rest against each other, whereby the top I) is iirmly sustained in said position.

The form and connections of the links F, F1, and F2, besides being such as to accomplish the object above stated, are such as to admit ot' the top D being swung down between the rear ofthe body A and the handles G G into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

IVe claim as our invention- The combination of links F F1 F2 with the body A of a childs carriage, and the stili' top D for holding the latter in its elevated position, and letting it down between the handles and the body, substantially as desoribed.

SANFORD P. CAMPBELL. FREDERICK G. COXSON. JOHN MARSHALL CROSBY.

Witnesses THOMAS J. BEWLEY,

Y Einw. L. CAMPBELL. 

